3. How to create a blog account

Create an email address that you will use for school. You may choose to use your existing email address or create a new one that you will check at least every other day. If you are creating a new account, Google mail (Gmail) works very well with Blogspot. Other companies include Yahoo and Hotmail.

Provide this email address to the teacher and wait for email invitation.

Check your email account for an invitation generated by Blogger. See image.

4. Accepting the invitation by clicking on the link will prompt you to log in with your Google account or create one.

5. You have a choice: 1) Google+ links your account to other social networking and requires you to use your real name,OR 2) Blogger Profile, which allows you to make up a display name. If you choose this option, please use a name that the teacher will easily recognize for assessment purposes.

6. After you have created your profile, you will be at you Blogger "dashboard". A dashboard is the page that will come up each time you sign into Blogspot.com using this email account. You will see the below image.

4. How to post using your Blogspot account

7. After logging in using your Blogspot email account and seeing your dashboard, Click on the orange button with the pencil icon. See step 6 for image.

8. The screencast below shows how to create a post by adding both text and video using an embedding code that is provided as a sharing option for most videos located on the web. The steps are explained below: 1. Making sure that you are in the compose mode, type text into the text box. Adding a video 2. Click on the HTML button on the top-left in order to embed image or video code into the post. 3. Locate the code next to your video (usually under a share option) and copy it. 4. Making sure you are in the HTML mode, paste the code under or above your typed text. 5. Your code will turn into the media object when you click back into Compose mode.Adding an image from the web using code 6. Making sure you are in the Compose mode, click on the image icon. Choose the last option "From a URL" 7. You can add images that are located on the web, by right-clicking and clicking on "Copy image URL" . Paste this into the From a URL box. Publish8. When you are done, click the orange Publish button that is located in the top menu. 9. The resulting screen will show you all previous post and traffic information. 10. Click "View Blog" button at the top to review your post. This is 11. Reviewing is important to make sure the text and code are visible for others.

5. Criteria for Art 2 Students

1 Art-related post per grading quarter. Do not copy or plagiarize! Two original sentences are much more valuable than your ability to copy someone else's thoughts. Read, summarize, and synthesize the concept with what has been learned in class. Plagiarizing will automatically result in a 62%.

Complete the form below by midnight on the due date. 11:59:59 p.m. is significantly different than midnight.